News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Defendant Admits Pointing Weapon at Police.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah received bonus bids totaling $192,072.00 for 19 parcels covering 9,049.97 acres at the quarterly oil and gas lease sale conducted today utilizing the EnergyNet internet-based auction system.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: If you ever dreamed of working for the National Park Service, now is the time, with more than 500 seasonal job openings available for the summer of 2017, in over fifteen parks across the state of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing two firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Former Resident of Nevada and Montana Pleads Guilty to Corruptly Interfering with the Tax Laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, Stephen Miles Munson, 72, of Bend, Oregon, pleaded guilty to willfully filing a false tax return. According to court documents, on his 2008 federal income tax return, Munson falsely claimed that he donated 200,000 shares of stock to the University of Oregon and Stanford University. He claimed the shares had an alleged value of $3.2 million. In reality, Munson never made the claimed donations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Dec. 12, 2016, U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Daunte Antonio Jones, age 27, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, to 150 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and sentenced Ernest Ingram, Jr., age 32, of Washington D.C., to 87 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for armed robberies of pharmacies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two more individuals pled guilty in federal court today for their role in the Division of Highways pay-to-play scheme, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announces that Sie Merriman, 36, of Fort Wayne, IN was sentenced before District Court Judge Theresa Springmann for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Maynard Shirley 37, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Kirtland, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to being an accessory after the fact and impeding an investigation into a murder and assault which occurred in Fruitland, N.M., on March 21, 2015. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Maynard Shirley will be sentenced to 42 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Plea Follows $1.86 Million Settlement by City of Atlanta of Civil Claims that AWDA Failed to Adequately Oversee Federal Workforce Training Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Charges Include Drug Trafficking And Firearms Possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Fries woman, who conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine in and around the Hillsville and Galax regions of Virginia, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has updated the Standard Criteria for evaluating its Water Management Plans in response to the Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992 and in accordance with the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982. The purpose of the Standard Criteria are to promote the highest efficiency of water delivery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Lynchburg, VIRGINIA - A Woodbridge woman, who conspired with others to traffic methamphetamine in and around the Lynchburg, Virginia region, pled guilty yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Richard Blazer, 70, of Marion, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to wire fraud and money laundering as part of an investment fraud scheme.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a former Chair of the Committee, today announced that their legislation to enhance U.S. engagement with the Caribbean has passed the House and Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former JetBlue flight attendant who tried to bring nearly 60 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport by using her “known crewmember" credentials has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An internal medicine doctor practicing in Staten Island, New York, was charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A leader of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang today admitted his role in a racketeering conspiracy that involved murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
